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Young British men are earning less than previous generation

Millennial males are making less money than the previous generation as they take on lower paid, lower skilled jobs.

The Resolution Foundation, a British think tank, published new research Thursday saying men born between 1981 and 2000 will earn £12,500 ($15,700) less in their 20s than Generation X men.

The earnings decline comes as more men takeon low-paying jobs in restaurants, bars and shops. The number of men doing this kind of work has more than doubled since 1993 as the number of young women working in these jobs has fallen.

Millennial men are also taking on more part-time gigs as the number of women in part-time work has declined.

"Employment growth amongst women has been overwhelmingly transferred into higher-skilled jobs," the researchers noted. "For men the growth is much more evenly split between higher and lower paying occupations."

Millennial women haven't seen the same loss of income as men -- their pay has remained flat compared to the generation of women that came before them, according to the researchers. But they haven't see the financial rewards they might have expected given advances at school and the workplace.

"This is a disappointing return considering the strides they've made in education," noted researcher Daniel Tomlinson.